Wednesday, January 21, 2009

When I was a little girl six years of age, we lived in an apartment in Ketchican Alaska.

There are times that Ketchican gets horrendous winds.

I was in the first grade and very small when one of those winds kicked up. I was trying to walk the few blocks home from school when the gale caught me and was blowing this wisp of a girl towards the on coming traffic in the street. Luckily I was by a pole, so I wrapped my little arms around it and hung on for dear life.

A kindly man named Tom Stack, seeing my peril, rescued me, and took me home to my mother.

Friday, January 16, 2009

3. Post that picture on your blog and the story that goes along with the picture.

4. Tag 5 other peoples that you know or don't know to do the same thing and leave a comment on their blog or an email letting them know you chose them.

Fred the rooster decided he has had enough of country life. He headed off to town to strut his stuff on the concrete sidewalks.

It was a little scary walking thru the speeding traffic, dodging cars and mean dogs, but the journey was all worth it, when he stepped into Derves Drug's and up to the soda fountain. A chocolate Italian soda, billowing with whipped cream & sprinkles, just what he had been dreaming about, Heaven on earth!

Then when he thought life could get no better, in walked a beauty of a chick, Anna. She hopped up on the stool beside Fred. They sipped soda's and talked all afternoon.

As the day wore on rooster Fred decided he'd better head home. After all the coyotes and owls come out at night and would love to have a nice chicken dinner.

Fred had lost track of time and was a little late getting down the road. He got stopped at the railroad tracks and impatiently hopped from leg to leg waiting for the cars to be filled with wheat. In the distance he could hear the dinner bell ringing at the farm. By the time Fred arrived at his coup all the corn had been gobbled up by the hungry flock.

Monday, January 12, 2009

We had planned a road trip, but after driving a few miles, finding a semi stalled out in the middle of the highway & hearing strong wind warnings, we decided the trip wasn't necessary and turned around to come home.

It has turned out not to be windy at all, just a beautiful snowy day.

I took a walk and shot allot of winter pictures.

This weird person was following me.

Here is a little bird. They where flitting all around looking for seeds.

Although Mom is gone, she doesn't want us to be sad. How do I know this? After she died, every time I thought about Mom being gone & would start to feel blue, a jaunty little tune would come on the radio. It was set to kind of a Calypso beat & had the line in it "Life goes on" I don't know the song or who sang it, but it just seemed like a message from Mom "Hey, don't be sad, my spirit is still going on"

With that in mind, I was thinking about what I like to smell like. I'm not a perfume person, but I love the scent of coconut & vanilla. It reminds me of sunshine & a tropical vacation.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

We have a good friend with Lu Garrett's Disease & got a call on New years eve. that his wife Amy had passed away. She was only 50 years old & had a bad stroke last year. I was just at there house two weeks ago & she seemed to be getting better.

We will miss you Amy

This is a poem her aunt recited at her funeral today. I think it is beautiful.